Saturn’s Rings Rain Organic Compounds Into Its Atmosphere The Cassini probe’s final flybys show that 22,000 pounds of material per second drops from the rings into the planet’s ionosphere ...

Details of Saturn's icy rings are visible in this sweeping view from Cassini of the planet's glorious ring system. The total span, from A ring to F ring, covers approximately 40,800 miles (65,700 ...

Saturn's rings extend up to 175,000 miles (282,000 km) from the planet. However, they are very thin: The main rings have a height of only 30 feet (10 m), on average, according to NASA.

In April, 2017, Cassini began its final tour of the giant planet, diving further into the approximately 1,200-mile-wide gap between Saturn and its rings at a distance of about 1,000 to 2,500 miles ...

Saturn pumps into space varying amounts of heat based on its seasons, which drives planet-wide storms, data from NASA's Cassini mission has revealed.

NASA's Cassini reveals the mysteries of Saturn's rings—and new hope for life on a moon. NASA’s Cassini explores Saturn for 13 years, looping through its icy rings and flying by its moons. The ...

A year after Cassini ended its 20-year mission to study Saturn, the last data the spacecraft recorded before plunging into the planet’s atmosphere are revealing its long-held secrets.

Today’s debate over the provenance of Saturn’s rings traces its origin to several decades ago, chiefly to the first close-up reconnaissance of the system by the interplanetary Voyager 1 and ...

Saturn is best-known for its eye-popping rings, which sweep 175,000 miles from the planet. Scientists think that Saturn’s rings are the shredded remains of a moon that wandered too close.

Saturn’s rings might be as young as 400 million years, if not younger. This might not seem young for humans – but for a planet of 4.5 billion years, it’s less than 10 percent of its life. So ...

A year after Cassini ended its 20-year mission to study Saturn, the last data the spacecraft recorded before plunging into the planet’s atmosphere are revealing its long-held secrets.